Víðblindi or Viðblindi ("Very blind") is a jötunn in Norse mythology.
Attestations
The skald Hallar-Steinn uses the kenning "Viðblindi's boar" () for whale in a stanza quoted by Snorri Sturluson in his ''Skáldskaparmál''. Snorri explains it as follows:
:Here the whale is called Boar of Viðblindi; this Viðblindi was a giant who drew whales out of the sea like fishes.
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::—''Skáldskaparmál''
(XLVI)Brodeur's translation
A similar kenning for whale, "Víðblindi's pig" ( non, Víðblinda svín), can be found in an anonymous stanza from the 13th century preserved in ''Laufás-Edda''.
Víðblindi is also listed among the in the ''þulur''.
Interpretation and discussion
Rudolf Simek noted that the only known for fishing whales is Hymir, but he is never called Víðblindi / Viðblindi.
[Simek 1996.]
Notes
References
* Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (trans.). 1916.
Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda'. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
* Rudolf Simek, Simek, Rudolf. 1996. ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology''. Translated by Angela Hall. First published: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1984. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. .
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